You posted that you had hardware failure. Can you say what have been gone or "how much" have gone? You can open some kind of donation ask (simple like tell a PayPal account). Many of us pay nothing bacause we're using opensource OSes and programs. It's a good opportunity to spend some money!

sounds like a catastrophic failure: may require complete rebuilding of hardware And software. I imagine re-creating get/playdeb from the start. also, no revenue from teh site. A PayPal OMFG We Need Cash is a good idea.

Do you know when the getdeb repository server is going to be back online? That post was on December 9th 2012 and it's now January 14 2013. Is the getdeb repository server coming back online anytime in the near future?

It is now January 18th, and I would like to know why (if a power supply has gone down, and a server has lost power) it has A) not been put on a backup, and B) why is has taken more than a month to get said server back online. Are there plans to ever get it back online?

This is absolutely ridiculous. How on earth is anyone supposed to trust getdeb as a viable, reliable, trustworthy source for software after a stunt like this. After that December 9th post, I can see a really bad server crash as a week down, tops.

A month and a half is completely unacceptable. Nightingale is sitting up on getdeb, and it's one of the MANY pieces of software that is unretrievable thanks to this mess. I can't put in to words how ludicrous this scenario has become.

Made worse still is the fact that no one has come forward and said "we're working on it" or "we're sorry for the extended delay because..." Without anything like that to go off of, this just looks like a lot of laziness and incompetence.

After the server crash where also the GetDeb and PlayDeb database was lost and given the fact that GetDeb and PlayDeb now have too many packages to be handled as a one-man-project I decided to discontinue GetDeb and PlayDeb.In the last years I have spent so many hours in the project that now it is just too much for me to maintain beside my usual job.

But this does not mean that all the work in GetDeb and PlayDeb is lost. The repository is still completely mirrored, e.g.: http://mirror.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mirrors/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/ (Google search: 'quantal-getdeb-testing intitle:"Index of"' should give you a good list).Also all the package script (i.e. the debian directory) for every package in the precise and quantal repository are available in my GitHub repositories:* https://github.com/ckorn/GetDeb* https://github.com/ckorn/PlayDeb* For special upstream watchers there is this repository: https://github.com/ckorn/Upstream-watchers

The web interface of both GetDeb and PlayDeb is called apt-portal which is specialised for viewing the information in an apt repository:* https://code.launchpad.net/apt-portal

And finally there are the scripts and little helpers of the automated build process:* https://code.launchpad.net/debfactory

The entire repository of Debian packages can be downloaded with this script:* http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JaVkvFFZ

It is currently 84GiB in size so please only download it if you really want all the packages. If you just want some simply use a mirror.

Let me also thank everybody of you for the trust you had in GetDeb and PlayDeb as an unofficial repository. I think GetDeb and PlayDeb were one of the greatest unofficial repositories for Ubuntu packages.I think to spend some time to bring some of the packages in the official repository.

Thank you and bye!--Thats all Folks. GetDeb & PlayDeb are dead for now.